page_title: Yves Fortier (lawyer)
section_title: Fifty years at Ogilvy Renault
hierarchical_section_title: Yves Fortier (lawyer) / Legal career / Fifty years at Ogilvy Renault
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Place Ville-Marie, Montréal
context_page_description: Louis Yves Fortier, PC, CC, OQ, QC, Ad.E., is a Canadian diplomat, trial and appellate lawyer, arbitrator and corporate director. He served as the Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations from August 1988 to December 1991. In August 2013, he became a member of the Security Intelligence Review Committee and the Queen's Privy Council for Canada. He also served as the national president of the Canadian Bar Association in 1982-1983.
context_section_description: In 1961, he was called to the Quebec bar.  He joined the well-known firm of Ogilvy Renault, where he practised for half a century.  While at Ogilvy Renault, he developed a friendship with another young lawyer, Brian Mulroney, who went on to be Prime Minister of Canada.  Fortier served as Chairman of Ogilvy Renault from 1992 to 2009.  He left the firm on good terms in 2011 to establish a solo international arbitration practice.
  Fortier developed an active civil litigation practice, both within Canada and internationally.  He acted in a wide range of litigation matters: commercial law, bankruptcy cases, tax law, competition law, and divorces all came within his practice.   He appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada on twenty-five cases, including lead counsel for the Government of Canada on one of the most important Supreme Court cases, the Reference re Secession of Quebec. He also argued before international arbitration panels, including the International Court of Justice.  He has represented Canada in boundary disputes with the United States  over the boundary with Maine, and with France in relation to St Pierre and Miquelon, as well as fisheries disputes with the United States.  He has been counsel to several royal commissions and public inquiries, as well as counsel to the Government of Quebec in relations with the Cree Nation in Quebec.
  On November 15, 2010, Ogilvy Renault LLP joined with London-based law firm Norton Rose.  In 2011, citing potential conflicts of interest posed by the expansion of the firm's clientele, Fortier left Norton Rose and established his own firm in order to continue his career as an international arbitrator independently.
caption: Place Ville-Marie, Montreal, where Fortier has his office.
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